tech

See also: Tech., tech-, and -tech

English

Etymology

Clipping of technology, technician, and technique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛk/, [tʰɛk]
• Rhymes: -ɛk

Noun

tech (countable and uncountable, plural techs)

1. (informal) technology
2. (informal) technician
   • 2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth (page 23)

     A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.

3. (informal) technique
4. (informal, used in titles) technical college

   Greenville Technical College is informally known as Greenville Tech.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• biotech
• high-tech
• low-tech

• techie
• tech support
• tech wreck

Related terms

• technology
• technological

Anagrams

• Chet, chet, echt, etch, hect-

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

• teg

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tégos (“cover, roof”), from *steg- (“to cover”); cognate with Ancient Greek τέγος (tégos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʲex/

Noun

tech n (genitive tige or taige, nominative plural tige or taige)

1. house

Declension

Neuter s-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	tech, teg	techN, tegN	tigeL, taigeL
Vocative	tech, teg	techN, tegN	tigeL, taigeL
Accusative	tech, teg	techN, tegN	tigeL, taigeL
Genitive	tigeH, taigeH	tigeN, taigeN	tigeN, taigeN
Dative	tigL, taigL	tigib	tigib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Synonyms

• attrab
• dom
• lann
• tegdais
• treb

Derived terms

• tech midchuarta
• tech n-óil
• tech n-othar, tech othrais
• tech screptra
• tech sét
• tech talman

Descendants

• Irish: teach
• Manx: çhagh, thie
• Scottish Gaelic: taigh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
tech	thech	tech pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• “tech” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.